Romesh Ranganathan

We are entering an age where people can claim to know more about what really happened than the people who were there. Where people will dismiss eyewitness accounts, on the basis of their gut feelings; where they will refute scientific discoveries because the scientist just doesn't look trustworthy.

British Comedian

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

American Writer

Terry Hayes

I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.

English Writer

Molly Ivins

I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like interviewing all four eyewitnesses to an automobile accident and then trying to write an accurate account of what happened.

American Journalist

John Shelby Spong

Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark's gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all.

American Clergyman

Jeffrey Kluger

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.

Harvey Fierstein

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.

American Actor

Peter Bergen

Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts, and simple common sense.

Jean Shepherd

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

An eyewitness's reliability can influence how much people believe what they say.

Witness Credibility

An eyewitness must have been present at the event to provide firsthand information.

Immediate Presence

In legal situations, 'eyewitness' implies the person may testify in court.

Legal Context

 was called to the crime scene, it was a boating fatality, and the eyewitness told this detective that the boat had flipped over and the occupant had drowned underneath. Now, instinctively, crime scene investigators look for what is apparent, but this detective did something different. He looked for what wasn't there, which is harder to do. And he raised the

A lesson on looking PIPE...

 All of these fallibilities of memory can have real-world impacts. If police interrogations use leading questions with eye witnesses or suspects, suggestibility could result in incorrect identifications or unreliable confessions. Even in the absence of leading questions, misattribution can lead to inaccurate eyewitness testimony.

Are all of your memories...

 That means language can shape how you're thinking about anything that can be named by a noun. That's a lot of stuff. And finally, I gave you an example of how language can shape things that have personal weight to us -- ideas like blame and punishment or eyewitness memory. These are important things in our daily lives.

How language shapes the...

 that's not to say that it's straightforward or without controversy. Is it ethical to destroy memories? What about things like eyewitness testimony? What if you can't give someone Propranolol because it would interfere with other medicines that they're taking? Well, with respect to ethics and eyewitness testimony,

Can we edit memories? PIPE...

 whales flanking and driving others will periodically bite onto the tail flukes of the blue weighing him down further and exhausting him also while it is difficult to discern from this footage eyewitness is indicated that still other whales were constantly plunging underneath the big blue whale preventing

Killer whale society PIPE...

 It's called reconstructed memories. It happens to us in all the aspects of our life, all the time. It was those two considerations, among others -- reconstructed memory, the fact about the eyewitness fallibility -- that was part of the instigation for a group of appeal attorneys

Scott Fraser: The...

 but my research had shown that single-witness identification cases are prone to error. It doesn't mean he was innocent, it just means we ought to look a little bit closer at those cases. So we did. And the facts were relatively simple. The eyewitness said she heard a shot,

How I help free innocent...

 identification quite defined so I don't know what that muscle is but for your words on the statements of which part of the leg are you referring smooth or well at the outside of the thigh I guess anything that is said to an eyewitness by a police officer can affect their

See No Evil PIPE National...

 many in the scientific community have dismissed eyewitness reports as unreliable citing wildlife hoaxes and optical illusions

Loch Ness Sightings PIPE...

 the last eyewitness account of an incredible act of athleticism, disobedience, courage, unread, unheard,